Industries

Agriculture & Agri-Tech

Proven agricultural technology exists. Most of it was built for conditions that are not yours.

Agricultural technology has a translation problem. A great deal of capable equipment and software exists, and most of it was designed for properties with different scale, different regulation, different connectivity and different seasonal patterns to those in Australia and New Zealand.

Our work in this sector is mostly adaptation and integration rather than invention: taking established sensing, irrigation and monitoring capability and making it work under local conditions, then connecting it to the business systems where planning, compliance and financial decisions actually get made.

The technical constraint that shapes most of these projects is connectivity. Systems designed on the assumption of a reliable connection behave badly on a property where that is not available, and designing for intermittency from the start is considerably cheaper than retrofitting it.

Where we focus

Areas of work

Sensing and field monitoring

Sensor networks and the data infrastructure behind them — collection, transmission from properties with limited connectivity, and the storage and modelling that turns readings into something a manager can act on.

Irrigation intelligence

Systems that turn soil, weather and flow data into irrigation decisions, built to work with the equipment already installed on the property rather than requiring wholesale replacement.

Crop monitoring and aerial survey

Monitoring and aerial survey capability, including the data handling and interpretation that determines whether the imagery produces a decision or just a large archive of files.

FAQ

Common questions

Do you build agricultural technology from scratch?

Not usually, and not by preference. Established solutions exist for most of this; the work that adds value is adapting them to ANZ conditions, regulations and equipment, and integrating them with the systems a business already runs.

Our properties have poor connectivity. Is that a blocker?

It is a design constraint rather than a blocker, and it is one of the most common differences between technology built overseas and technology that works here. Intermittent connectivity has to be assumed in the architecture rather than treated as a fault condition.

How does this connect to the rest of our business systems?

That is usually where the value is realised. Field data that never reaches planning, finance or compliance reporting stays an interesting dashboard, so integration is part of the work rather than a later phase.

Tell us what you are trying to build.

A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether we are the right fit. If we are not, we will say so.

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